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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Are you using hardware RAID? yeah, that doesn't go too well with Linux... works perfectly in Windows though, cuz their softraid solutions are shit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Server-level hardware RAID is fine on Linux. It has to, because manufacturers would cut out a huge chunk of their market if they didn't. Servers are moving away from that, though, and using filesystems with their own software RAID, like zfs.

Cheapo built-in consumer motherboard RAID doesn't work great on Linux, but it's also hot garbage that's software RAID with worse performance than the OS implementation could give you. I guess if you're dual booting, you'd have to do it that way since I don't think you can share software RAID between Windows and Linux. It's still not great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Cheapo built-in consumer motherboard RAID doesn't work great on Linux

That is what I actually meant.

I guess if you're dual booting, you'd have to do it that way since I don't think you can share software RAID between Windows and Linux. It's still not great.

That's why you don't do RAID at all on a daily driver. You make/buy a NAS for that kind of thing. Maybe just RAID1 in hardware, cuz that's easy to set up and generally just works, even with low end hardware solutions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's called FakeRAID for a reason.